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...Premier Ulmanis are both members of the Farmers Union, the party of rich farmers and landowners. German Nazis uttered not a peep in Latvia last week but in Riga beer cellars the rumor persisted that the Latvian Fascist society Katsuelit was back of the present coup d'etat and back of Katsuelit was Adolf Hitler, sponsor of Das Baltikum Nazification...
...heard the roar of airplane engines swooping over the city. Outside officers barked commands boldly in the streets. Until the next morning the Army held Sofia and the provincial cities paralyzed. Only then did Bulgarians find out what had happened -the neatest and most peaceful coup d'etat the Balkans had ever seen...
...pleasant note is added by the fact that Yugoslavia is said to be massing troops on the border to prevent the ingress of the Bulgarian radicals, most of whom are said of he anti-Yugoslav. By this time, the moves in a fascist coup d'etat have become so routined that the Yugoslav variant is more than welcome...
Though only one of the French Railways Chemin de Fer de l'Etat is officially state-owned, all French railways are heavily subsidized, cost the Government between $198,000,000 and $264,000,000 a year. Spurred by Premier Doumergue, Minister of Public works Pierre Etienne Flandin presented a plan last week to cut (wo billion francs a year from this charge by replacing 6,000 mi. of secondary lines by passenger and freight buses and trimming 60,000 employes from the rolls. He further proposed to cut the pay and pensions of all other employes. With luck. this...
...itself. A slim little woman with lively black eyes, an implacable fury when crossed, otherwise fond of argument, company and flowers, she effectively ruled China from 1861 when she was 27 until her death in 1908. a chagrined old crone of 74. She engineered three coups d'etat to do it. She put one nephew, aged five, on the throne and later took him off when, grown up and turned reformer, he bought a Bible and a globe. Another nephew she married to the daughter of her girlhood love, thus producing Pu Yi whom she made Emperor...